When you wake up in the morning and stretch lazily, you experience sudden neck pain – you have a “stiff neck” in Chinese medicine, or an “acute cervical sprain” in Western medicine. Generally, this condition occurs when the neck is excessively twisted during sleep, causing imbalanced tension in the muscles on both sides of the […]
Xiaoshu,also known as “Minor Heat”, is the 11th of 24 solar terms, which means the peak of summer comes. This year’s Xiaoshu falls on 7 July. During this season,the climate is scorching hot, accompanied by frequent thunderstorms and excessive sweating. Most of us are prone to various diseases such as colds, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, rheumatism, and
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The Summer Solstice is the 10th of the 24th solar terms. It falls between the Grain in Ear (芒种) and Minor Heat (小暑), and begins on June 21st this year. As opposite the Winter Solstice, the Summer Solstice is an important day of transformation between yin and yang. The character “至”carries the meaning of reaching the
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